About Latrobe

Latrobe City today is a culturally diverse and vibrant community with a proud history of innovation and visionary development highly innovative and creative; the Latrobe City has become the seedbed for many exciting projects.

The Latrobe City is today one of Australia's major provincial centres. Latrobe City is home to regional headquarters for significant government and private organisations, education centres, such as Monash University Gippsland, Central Gippsland Institute of TAFE, and Gippsland Group Training.

The City has become the hospitality and sporting centre of Gippsland, with outstanding sporting facilities for tennis, athletics, swimming, and team sports, leisure centres and outstanding regional tourism attractions.

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Latrobe City Region

The Latrobe region is a resource rich area, with abundant forest and brown coal resources, water resources, and rich agricultural land. The area was initially developed in the 1880's as an agricultural and forestry area and was noted for its cattle runs.

The dairy and beef cattle industries to this day contribute significantly to Victoria's agricultural standing. Other major industries in the area include the Australian Paper Pulp and Paper Manufacturing Mill at Maryvale, Monash University and the Central Gippsland Institute TAFE, the Australian Securities Commission's National Information Processing Centre; and Victoria's four major power generators. Electricity generated from brown coal mined in the area represents 85% of all electricity generated in the State of Victoria.

Latrobe City is made up of four major urban centres: Churchill, Moe/Newborough, Morwell and Traralgon, with smaller townships of Boolarra, Glengarry, Toongabbie, Tyers, Traralgon South, Yallourn North, and Yinnar.

Latrobe City is less than two hours drive from Melbourne and boasts all the recreational and cultural facilities of a large diverse regional centre including the Latrobe Regional Gallery and Latrobe Performing Arts Centre with the added benefit of being nestled amongst some of the best tourist attractions in the state, such as the Morwell National Park, Hazelwood Pondage, Lake Narracan, Powerworks Museum, Victory Park and Moe Botanical gardens.

How to get to Latrobe City

Rail

V/Line run hourly rail services between Melbourne in the west to Traralgon in the east. A pleasurable two hour train (approximately 1.5 hours to Moe) ride will take you through south eastern Melbourne and the natural beauty of the Baw Baw mountain ranges before arriving in the Latrobe Valley.   For further information please call V/Line on 136 196 or alternately go to www.vline.com.au.

Download a Gippsland timetable 

Car 

Latrobe City is less than two hours drive from Melbourne Airport along the Princes Freeway (M1) and approximately an hour and a half from central Melbourne. The M1 is a double carriage freeway that runs direct from Melbourne to Latrobe City.

From the New South Wales border the Princess Freeway (A1) will bring you into the Latrobe Valley via the Gippsland Lakes, Lakes Entrance and Sale.

Getting around in Latrobe City

A Networked City

Latrobe City has four major towns in Moe, Morwell, Churchill and Traralgon. Each of these cities are linked through strong rail and bus connections.

Rail

Moe, Morwell and Traralgon are situated on the Gippsland Rail Corridor and services run between the towns on an hourly basis. For information please call V/Line on 136 196 or alternately go to www.vline.com.au.

Download a Gippsland timetable

Bus

Latrobe Valley Bus Lines operate both intercity and intra city services between Traralgon, Moe, Morwell and Churchill. Please visit www.lvbl.com.au or call 5134 2055 to obtain further information.

Taxi

Each of the four major towns provides both inter and intra city taxi service. They can be contacted on;

Related Links

• Linking Latrobe Transport Connections Program
• V/Line
• Latrobe Valley Bus Lines
• Maps of Latrobe City
• Visit Latrobe
• Viclink
• Metlink